EXCLUSIVE!! Industry calls for an export control regime in India
Neelam Mathews July 19, 2011 Time- 8;15pm IST Even as the Aerospace Industries Association welcomed the U.S administration’s proposed rule to relieve low-risk technology exports of burdensome and unnecessary restrictions, India now needs to look at a system that will protect its own technology. As India looks at design, development and manufacture of sensitive technologies, questions are starting to emerge. “Does India have any regulations for export control…It will have to put in some pieces..Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd has sold its Advance Light Helicopter to a Latin American country…any regulation signed on this? What is the guarantee if the BrahMos is sold to a country that will not sell it to a rogue state?” says an OEM to Aerospace Diary. “We can say Iran is our friend, and sell to it. Any guarantees that Pakistan will not get the technology,?” queries an Indian industry official. Meanwhile, India has welcomed steps taken by the U.S to remove Indian entities from the ...